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Pankaj Guleria

New York,NY

Summary

Engineering manager with 10+ years of experience in software development, specializing in AWS cloud technologies. Led GenAI tool development, cloud migrations, and data analytics, accelerating software delivery. Built and scaled a high-performing team of 14 engineers, fostering a culture of activate caring, team work while establishing engineering best practices, optimizing SDLC, and driving innovation.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineering Manager

Audible (an Amazon Company)
08.2022 - Current
  • Led the development of a GenAI-powered builder tool to automate test workflows, scale across teams, and accelerate software delivery, resulting in $2.88M in annual savings.
  • Developed an enterprise-wide test account management platform, streamlining authentication, account provisioning, and credit card management, including Google and Apple accounts, resulting in $20M+ in annual savings.
  • Spearheaded organization-wide initiatives and established KPIs to monitor resiliency engineering, AWS cost optimization, pipeline efficiency, and developer productivity.
  • Manage software development engineers, providing strategic guidance on SDLC best practices and project delivery for high-impact initiatives, while also conducting technical interviews to identify and hire top talent.
  • Led a successful migration to Native AWS, including cross-region migrations, modernizing legacy systems to improve scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency while reducing downtime by 20%.
  • Collaborated with Product and engineering teams across globally distributed locations to define and execute technical roadmaps, aligning business goals with scalable engineering solutions.
  • Recruited, hired, and built a high-performing team of 20 engineers from the ground up, driving full CI/CD adoption and improving P90 time to production by 50%.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Audible (an Amazon Company)
08.2016 - 07.2022
  • Developed a scalable end-to-end (E2E) automation framework encompassing both UI and API testing for Audible Web Services, onboarding 200+ microservices, improving test reliability, accelerating release cycles, and enabling continuous deployment.
  • Designed and built a distributed, scalable grid infrastructure using Docker to execute large-scale automation tests, optimizing resource utilization, reducing execution costs, and improving test efficiency.
  • Architected and developed an analytics dashboard to track software delivery metrics, including CI/CD adoption, time-to-production insights, test coverage, and pipeline efficiency, enhancing organization-wide delivery speed and engineering productivity.
  • Built a web-based analytics dashboard for AWS CloudHSM, enabling near real-time monitoring of cryptographic key usage across multiple AWS regions, improving security compliance and operational visibility.
  • Led the architecture and development of a Smart Regression Builder tool, enabling targeted workflow testing and reducing test execution time, improving test efficiency and deployment quality.
  • Served as Tech Lead, mentoring software engineers and interns, conducting interviews, and establishing best practices for SDLC, API development, and system architecture.

Software Engineer

Great Software Laboratory Pvt Ltd. (GS Lab)
06.2011 - 06.2014
  • Worked on a Web-based platform enabling customers to digitized manual business processes, including approvals, form submissions, and document management.
  • Database migrations & validations, ensuring data integrity and seamless transitions.
  • Led performance tuning and optimization for client-server applications, leveraging JMeter for load and stress testing, resulting in improved system stability.
  • Provided technical mentorship to new hires, guiding them on product architecture, development processes, and engineering best practices.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
07.2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Savitribai Phule Pune University
India
06.2011

Skills

  • Technical leadership
  • Project planning
  • Hiring
  • Mentoring
  • Agile, Scrum, Slack, Jira
  • AWS, Java
  • Full CI/CD
  • Excellent communication
  • Coding standards, Code reviews, Source control management, build processes, testing
  • Microservices

Timeline

Software Engineering Manager

Audible (an Amazon Company)
08.2022 - Current

Senior Software Development Engineer

Audible (an Amazon Company)
08.2016 - 07.2022

Software Engineer

Great Software Laboratory Pvt Ltd. (GS Lab)
06.2011 - 06.2014

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Savitribai Phule Pune University

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